Dhaka, Sept. 18 -- The government has asked the central bank to include the pandemic-hit tea industry in its fiscal stimulus package as the sector has been facing severe financial crisis in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.

To this effect, the finance ministry has sent a letter to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) to take necessary measures for including the sector in the working capital facility for the affected industries and services sector organisations or stimulus package for supplying working capital to small (including cottage industries) and medium industrial enterprises.

The fund sizes of industries and services sector and small and medium industrial enterprises are Tk 330 billion and Tk 200 billion respectively.

When contacted, BB sp...